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I'm attempting to customise the web report skin, but I'm finding it a painfully slow process as I don't really code (I'm more of a cut and plagerise merchant). I really really would like to stop the TOC's being grouped by the first letter (a-z). It's quite tedious to expand the "a", to see all the items beginning with "a". While I'm sure it is a great timesaver for people with hundreds of surnames - my file only has 50 or so surnames. Can you tell me what code changes I need to make to stop this top level grouping ? many thanks
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The report generator has an optional parameter to change threshold before automatically collapsing long lists.
You are welcome to play around with this value and determine which is the limit you want. You will have to set this value each time you generate a report. Once you want to make this value more permanent, edit the file Config.xml in the folder "Customized English Narrative Report" You will see the following: <Parameters _PathPictures="pictures/"
_fValidatePictureCache="Y"
fUseTreeIndexes="Y"
fHidePictureName="N"
fShowPictureDetails="N"
fHideFamilyDetails="Y"
fJoinPlaceNames="N"
fJoinSourceCitationNames="N"
fCollapseNotes="Y"
fCollapseReferences="Y"
fLinkToSvgMap="Y"
fCompressSvg="Y"
cTocExpand="1000"
PictureSizeSmall="100x100"
PictureSizeLarge="250x250"
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The documentation for cTocExpand is: Determines whether or not tree indexes are initally displayed expanded or not. A value of -1 means always expand the index, 0 means never expand the index and a value > 0 indicates expand index if number of entries is less than or equal to that value. The value is initially set at 1000.
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I've already had a good play with that setting.The trouble is that it's all or nothing (and it's global - applying to all the TOC pages - individuals, families, places, sources, etc). Say for instance I have 500 individuals in my tree - if I set the "Item limit before indexes are shown in 'collapsed' view" to 510, the TOC shows the list fully expanded : every letter of the alphabet expanded, and every family name expanded, showing every individual. If I set the limit below 500 - I just see the alphabet, and have to expand each letter. What I'm trying to achieve is a default view where the top level of the TOC is the surname (for individuals), the parent place (for places), the parent source (for citations), and I click to expand each surname. eg: Name Index +Butler (5 individuals)
+Baker (30 individuals)
+Harper (40 individuals) One of my issues with the a-z level is that it it lengthens the list for the same content :
+B
+Butler (5 individuals)
+Baker (30 individuals)
+B
+Harper (40 individuals) cheers, Cary
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I understand what you mean - it is a good suggestion.
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Looks like it is quite easy to remove the initial letter level from the Individual index if you are happy creating a custom skin. Just changes lines 1008 & 1033 of Code\Lang.vbs
From If g_fUseTreeIndexes Then
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ToAlternatively just remove these two If statements and their dependent statements entirely. Haven't tested it exhaustively but seems to work. Line numbers refer to version Narrative_2.0.1.5RC10. Perhaps I'll add a config option to do this in the future.
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Fantastic - that does the trick !I've also been able to supress the A-Z level for a number of the other TOC's. Some I've done as per below : if strFirstChar <> strFirstCharPrev Then
'If strFirstCharPrev <> "" Then Report.WriteLn "</ul></li>"
'Report.WriteFormattedLn "<li class='xT2-{}' onclick='xTclk(event,""2"");'> <span class='xT-i bold'>{&t}</span><ul>", Util.IfElse(fTreeOpen,"o","c"), strFirstChar
strFirstCharPrev = strFirstChar
End If
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Thank you very much !
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